«I’ve been painting rhinos off and on and in fits and starts since 1999. I am obsessed with them: Their shapes and negative spaces, their wrinkles and horns, the hairy ones, the armored ones, the stoic ones rolling in mud. The first paintings were made because a friend needed a wedding present. In my process of research and study, I fell in love.

Those first paintings were, for the most part, even more surreal and often more abstract than my current series, Rhinotopia. The very first three rhino paintings I made had amorphic backgrounds and were a bit abstract. One of them was even called Marriage. The painting that my friend and her new husband decided on was not that one. They chose a different painting altogether. It was made after a fire in my studio apartment and was very...flame oriented.»

«The Rhinotopia series is about form, paint, light, and composition. However, it also takes storytelling and my desire to share into larger account. In each painting, I tie the rhino to the sacred. Sometimes a painting will have a specific myth gently mentioned within it. Other times I look to general characteristics of an archetype/deity and portray those in the painting. I am not an expert in world religions and mythology. I’m a student of it all, and I like to share what I learn.

In my paintings, I immortalize the rhino. In real life—outside my canvases—I donate a percentage of what I am paid for each piece of rhino art to the International Rhino Foundation (www.rhinos.org). In addition to being an artist, I’m also a conservationist.»

Anne E. Shoemaker-Magdaleno is an American artist that paints under the name of Chabrier.

She has worked as an artist all her adult life. She usually worked for large corporations, doing resin pours, etched glass, stain glass, sculpted architectural appointments, and paintings or murals. Most of these works can be seen in Major Hotels, Casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, and in corporate and private jets.

Now she's concentrating on her private art work, and trying to network with other artists.

Her favorite flowers are Roses and Bearded Iris. She paints what she knows and what she grows. She works from life or photographs or both. She loves the San Diego Zoo and The Wild Animal Park, and loves to photograph the birds there.

Caroline Selvey is an American full time sculptor modelling clay and creating fused glass pieces.

After eight years of studio work the teaching has not been entirely abandoned and she still leads workshops for children and adults, ranging from early years to senior citizens, with groups varying from gifted and talented through to those with special needs.

Caroline’s work is based on organic, human and animal forms for both indoor and outdoor display and she is at her happiest in her studio or when she smells from head to toe of an outdoor Raku firing that has produced some wonderful glazed effect. In close third place is her love of meeting with and encouraging everyone to enjoy their art.

Juan José Sabogal is an architect and fine artist born in Colombia in 1985.

In 2013 founded Expansive Design, Workshop of arts and techniques. That same year he began his artistic production with a series of works without script with which participates in XI Salon of Artists of Quindio. Subsequently performs "Coffee Landscape" collection that has been selected in the call Regional Figure 8, led by the Central Bank.

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